First scrap yard visit advice

I gotta ask...is that you in your avatar pic? Or you just a fan of pirates?



An if you don't mind me asking, whereabouts are you located? Might be some folks that can help you out with yard selection depending on where you are.

An the Goat has the right of it. You don't want to make that costly mistake. lol.

Good luck an let us know how it goes for ya Wedjlok(that l thru me off, I almost called you wedji.)

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler, with the secret ability to make lists..sometimes.

Yep, that's me in the photo. I'm a pirate enthusiast, I guess you can say. I made a living (and still do a little bit) making leather goods for a lot of pirate folk as well as bushcrafters and such. I was hit by a SUV in 2012 while bicycling, so that ended a lot of leatherworking due to the pains from hours of using a heavy hammer for detailed tooling work when I'd carve the leather. I still do it, just not like I used to, and now mainly do silversmithing and junking more full time, which is why I'm so eager to jump head on into the scrapping aspect of it more fully for more income.

As for my locale, I live in Jacksonville, FL. There are a decent number of scrappers driving through my neighborhood on a regular basis, but this city is also one of the largest cities in the US in size as far as area covered, so you can drive from one side to the other and it take a long time! I know we have several scrapyards and I've been checking them out and asking around, and looking online through iScrap and such, so it's a matter of finding a couple goods ones, I 'spose.